At Stephen Wirtz Gallery, prison mug shots from the 1950s offer a striking counterpoint to the tense portrait of a closed-eyed Ross Mirkarimi. Unidentified…
Photojournalists have risked their jobs manipulating images — as the Sacramento Bee's Bryan Patrick did in January — to produce the kind of work…
The business suit has gone through different epochs and will always have cachet, but artist John-Mark Ikeda says that it's lost its “mythic” status…
Collages of smaller images that create patterns (think of Chuck Close's portraits) have been popular for years, but Kirkman Amyx pushes the concept someplace…
Two years in the making, this exhibit accomplishes what it set out to do: to showcase the multifaceted art being made in California from…
Since 2004, Sandow Birk has painstakingly drawn an English-language version of the Quran, with an emphasis on “drawn.” Birk's holy book is meant to…
The women look forlorn or flummoxed, and the question is why. Only Richard Learoyd and his semi-anonymous subjects know for sure, and they prefer…
